George Sugarman (11 May 1912 – 25 August 1999)
Life and career
A 1934 graduate of the City College of New York, Sugarman served in the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945, assigned to the Pacific theater. He resumed his education in Paris, studying with
Cubist sculptor
Ossip Zadkine. He returned to New York City in 1955 at the age of 39 to begin his career as an artist.
In 1965, Sugarman participated in the critically acclaimed Concrete Expressionism show curated by critic
Irving Sandler at New York University, which also featured the work of sculptors
Ronald Bladen and
David Weinrib and painters
Al Held and
Knox Martin.
[Irving Sandler, From Avant-Garde to Pluralism: An On-The-Spot History (Hard Press Editions, 2006). ]
Notable collections
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Black Prow, 1978, Lincoln National Corporation, Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Trio, 1969–71, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, New York
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Cincinnati Story, at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, Ohio.
Further reading
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Irving Sandler. "Expressionism with Corners: Five Younger Artists Show at New York University". ARTnews 64 (April 1965).
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Stephen Westfall. "George Sugarman". Art in America, November 2013. New York: Brant Publications, Inc. pp. 176–177. (review of a 2013 exhibition at the Gary Snyder Gallery, New York. )
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